#hiringfreeze

After so many rounds of cuts, good people leaving on their own, and a hiring freeze for ages, who is even left to lay off? The teams are already skeletal, and morale is nonexistent, to put it mildly. The next logical step shouldn't be just more layoffs, but questioning if the company can even function with the people who remain.

Don’t expect a new job opening until April or later. No be one is hiring.

The new person who was to start after the shutdown was told the position has been filled but I was told the req was canceled. Is there a hiring freeze?

We heard this week that there is a hiring freeze on field leaders - DM and up. It seems obviously we’re about to see a big realignment and layoffs. Wondering what everyone is hearing?

A job i applied to I had heard good feedback however was told due to the acquisition the role is on hold and detail on how long this could be? Is this normal here? Seems like larger internal things are not being shared

Why isn't there a hiring freeze after (and before) such huge layoffs? I can see hundreds of openings, some added last week. How does that make sense?

I’m looking to get hired at Verizon as a developer in Alpharetta, Ga.
Have layoffs affected the Alpharetta location?
Is there a hiring freeze now in place?
Do I still have a chance of getting hired?

Is there a hiring freeze right now? I applied for two roles and radio silence but I meet most if not all of the requirements and what I do is pretty specific, so I can’t imagine it just being that much competition.

Is there a companywide hiring and promotion freeze in the US, or just JVB’s?

If so, how long have you been in your same position?

Just a note that there are very few jobs out there to apply for in November and December. Then in January things are still slow in the hiring process at a large company if they are hiring at all. Most will not be hiring.

The debt that Dell has will not allow the company to hire new employees.

We are already short people with several reqs open and one stopped during the hiring freeze before interviews could be done. If they need to cut from my team do these count as a headcount?

We can easily save money by freezing hiring, freezing travel, and penny pinching spending.

Oh wait... But we did that already.

But why are projects delayed???!!

I'm the VP of inflated egos and I don't understand! I hired two 3rd world contractors to take the place of that principle engineer. According to my advanced calculations... 2/1, we should have twice the productivity!

Well I've got a solution...

I'll create a new corporate team of VP's, give it a cool name, and our meetings will save money!

Winning. Too much winning!

The careers page shows 2,000+ openings. I tossed in apps for a few Manager/Director roles and… crickets. What’s going on—are you all even active? It feels eerily quiet over there.

So, since around Dan's epic 3Q webcast (where he actually didn't even discuss 3Q), the only positions posted have been retail, and maybe just a couple random others.

I realize there's a freeze and likely the reason, but I'm still surprised to see they've stopped posting for our international territories, also

The other thing is some people here are talking about retail getting axed, but given there's about 20 retail job postings each day, I think that's pretty far off.

Thoughts?

What a coincidence. Check the career pages, it says that due to an upgrade the open jobs can’t be shown. Until Nov 13. When earnings will be published. Big LR and hiring freeze incoming

No layoffs needed. People are just walking away at a steady pace (which gives me some hope, since it shows the job market is not as terrible as I feared). We even recently backfilled two positions, that's how rough it's gotten (and you know the feeling too, because sometimes it seems like we have a hiring freeze given how often we ask for help and get ignored). Which, funnily enough, makes me feel safe. Go figure.

Is there going to be a hiring freeze ?

My manager said he cannot afford to lose anyone on his team. No more reqs in the near future and it doesn't look good to have less than eight reports.

Is there a current one?

The market expects almost doubled Earnings from Oracle, putting intense pressure on the company to deliver rapid growth and justify these numbers.
Leaders/Engineers with stock holdings will be trimmed more.

Due to the company's high profitability, there's a low need for massive layoffs. instead, expect targeted layoffs (mostly performance-related) , hiring freeze, project cutdowns and more reorg.

Oracle is safe till next 3-4m to stay for sure but pressure will mount. Leaders will face more problem to deliver with less salary to employees and more mounting pressure.

Wondering about the NC merger of Carolina Complete Health and WellCare scheduled for Q12026. Any news of layoffs yet? I’m at CCH and we are already closing all open roles or just not filling them. Everyone is even more overworked than before.

Just for kicks I looked at the Cisco jobs site. There are zero openings anywhere. Is the tool broken or did they eliminate all hiring?

Coming into Q3 I'd normally be hiring for core and seasonal. I got an email recently to just focus on core... There's always a smell that lingers in the air right before employees are about to get sc--wed over.. It's starting to get that smell at WSI...

With cuts of staff, hiring freezes (yes, I used the f word which were never allowed to say out loud) and conflicting messaging from the top, how can HR an TA maintain it’s current staffing models? Furthermore, It’s absurd to market an organization to potential employees when we know our company is so unstable. How can you promote a company who has lost its direction, disoriented its culture and corrupted its sense of purpose? You can’t and you shouldn’t. And this hasn’t just happened…it’s been years in the making. We want to hire better but WE as a company need to BE better. No excuses or platitudes. 2026 should not be a continuation of 2023, 24 and 25.

All the jobs I applied to have the status "Job Application Closed" all of a sudden and no new jobs appear to be posted in Atlanta...

Per CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/business/walmart-h1b-visa-pause#:~:text=Walmart%2C%20which%20has%20a%20significant,Oct%2015%2C%202025

Since our raises were put on hold, it would seem logical that hiring would be put on pause too?

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/15/jpmorgan-chase-goldman-sachs-ai-hiring.html

JPMorgan said Tuesday in its third-quarter earnings report that while profit jumped 12% from a year earlier to $14.4 billion, head count rose by just 1%.

The bank's managers have been told to avoid hiring people as JPMorgan deploys AI across its businesses, CFO Jeremy Barnum told analysts.

HR stated going forward there will no new US hires.
Manilla or India are the only choices.

So many teams have been reduced to bare bones that we can barely manage, if at all. Layoffs have disproportionately targeted people in critical roles, those with real experience and skills. My team is missing several people whose shoes the rest of us can’t fill even if we wanted to. And to make it worse, the workload is the same or even bigger, but there are far fewer people to handle it. I’m basically falling off my feet, just like everyone else.

So... imagine a team that's been cut, cut, cut. In half. Down to the bone. There's a hiring freeze. Alas, the manager has an employee who's a poor performer but can't do anything because a) the person can't be replaced (hiring freeze) and b) a layoff is coming and there needs to be a lamb to go.

Meanwhile, those who remain must work even harder to accomplish their tasks. Otherwise, those in charge crack the whip and say, "Why can't you deliver 'on time' to the arbitrary delivery date we dreamed up?"

What's really messed up is the leadership that thinks this makes any sort of sense. Ultimately, at the rate this company is going, the train will run off the cliff and crash at the bottom of the canyon because the only ones that remain either don't care or don't know how to put on the brakes.

I'm hearing not good things the last week or so.

Parks Tacoma, the city’s parks and recreation district, is dealing with a combination of less revenue than expected and more expenses, making for a shortfall of $8 million. In response, the district cut some jobs last week.

The district laid off 14 staff members, and another 10 employees opted to take voluntary separation packages. The district also paused filling 25 vacant positions.

https://www.knkx.org/tacoma/2025-10-03/tacoma-parks-lays-off-staff-freezes-open-positions

Rumors are the Ford will freeze salaries and reduce hiring in '26 in a effort to lower cost and be more financially flexible given macroeconomic uncertainty and stiff international competition.

https://www.businessinsider.com/intuitive-silicon-valley-medtech-company-pauses-h-1b-hiring-2025-9

https://www.businessinsider.com/intuitive-silicon-valley-medtech-company-pauses-h-1b-hiring-2025-9